Fast 1986

Shown in HA Tolarno 9/86, used later as the basis for Arkley’s Sydney mural project (see now introductory comments for 1990), and reprised in Explosion (1996).

This painting, discussed in Spray as a ‘virtuoso psychedelic work’, and compared there with Brett Whiteley’s Smack (1973), is one of Arkley’s most overt attempts to translate the mind-altering experience of drugs into visual form.